This
is without doubt the finest, most complete, and historically accurate
capsule of Hillary Clinton's public life I've yet seen. I have
several
times wanted to do a similar compilation, but it was just too much
work. I know, in this age of ala-carte truth, it will be almost
impossible to get her supporters to watch, but it's least out there.

OK, so by now most of us have heard at least part of the news story
about the student Ohio State in Columbus who drove his car into a crowd
on the college campus, and then got out and started stabbing and
slashing people until he was shot dead by a local cop.

Since the news reports at first seemed hesitant to release his name or
description, one could almost have forecast that, when those details
were made public, he would be black or Muslim, as those are two groups
the Mainstream Media tends to protect and defend. It turns out he was
both

But now that he's been identified, expect to hear that "Since he wasn't
yelling 'Allahu Akhbar', authorities have no reason to believe this was
in any way connected to Islam, the Religion of Peace™."

But I don't think we're going to hear much from Black Lives Matter
about how he was "another black man gunned down by a racist white cop
who declared himself judge and jury."

And, in all seriousness, are we going to hear anything about the
reports that someone pulled a fire alarm just before the car-and-knife
attack? That would have resulted in more people out on the sidewalk,
providing a more "target-rich environment"; it might also indicate that
the attacker had an accomplice. There are also police and witness
accounts which mention a second and possibly third person
involved. But I'm sure we'll instead be hearing that he was "a lone
wolf" who "had been dealing with emotional issues".

It couldn't possibly be anything he'd read in the Most Holy Koran™ or
heard in a mosque that made him want to go out and "slay the infidel
wherever you may find him."

Actually, it has been reported that the attacker had posted on social
media about his unhappiness with the way Muslims were perceived and
treated; for example, he was upset that prayer rooms hadn't been
provided. Well, his actions will certainly go a long way toward making
people reconsider their attitudes toward Muslims, won't they?

I’ve been teaching and studying the U.S. Constitution for a
quarter-century, and events have sometimes tugged at my procedural head
and my substantive heart in different directions.

The impeachment of Bill Clinton, for example, struck me as a ludicrous
comic-opera coup d’etat—

The Constitution is not, however, as Justice Robert Jackson once
famously wrote, “a suicide pact.” That phrase is usually used to
suggest that government can legitimately overstep its bounds in times
of emergency. But it also refers, I think, to moments when “we the
people” pour a national libation of Kool-Aid and demand that everybody
drink.

I won’t.

The election of Donald Trump was, in procedural terms, scrupulously
fair. I hold no dark suspicions of altered vote counts or intimidation
at the polls. We may wish the Voting Rights Act had not been gutted by
the Court; but the election of 2016 followed the law of 2016.
Clearly
a large proportion of American citizens—not as many as voted for
Hillary Clinton, but still, under our strange system, enough—wanted
Trump as their president and now hope that he fulfills the loud
promises he repeatedly made to the country.

But those promises are the problem. Donald Trump ran on a platform of
relentless, thoroughgoing rejection
of the Constitution itself (?), and its
underlying principle of democratic self-government and individual
rights. True, he never endorsed quartering of troops in private homes
in time of peace, but aside from that there is hardly a provision of
the Bill of Rights or later amendments he did not explicitly promise to
override, from First Amendment
freedom of the press and of religion to Fourth Amendment freedom from
“unreasonable searches and seizures” to Sixth Amendment right to
counsel to Fourteenth Amendment birthright citizenship and Equal
Protection and Fifteenth Amendment voting rights. (so?)

I deny their right to give Trump my rights or those
of
others who cannot defend themselves. No result is legitimate that
threatens the Constitution its very promise of the “blessings of
liberty.” No transient plurality, no matter how angry, has the power to
strip minorities of equal status and protection; no mass of voters, no
matter how frightened, has the power to vote away the democratic future
of their children and their children’s children. (HUH?)

American national leaders gain their legitimacy by competing in
compliance with not merely the outward forms but the clear values of
our Constitution—equal dignity, religious freedom and tolerance, open
deliberation, and the rule of law. These values don’t bind Donald
Trump; norms of decency do not apply; he shrugs off the very burden of
fact itself.

Like dictators of the Old World, he
uses his mass media power to
lie, to insult, to strip individuals of their dignity, to commit the
grossest libels of religious and national groups, and to encourage
persecution, torture, and public violence. He actively campaigns
against any notions of racial, religious, and sexual equality. He
threatens those who oppose him with the unchecked power of the state. (HUH
the fk?)

[Trump] uses his
mass
media power to lie, to insult, to strip individuals of their dignity,
to commit the grossest libels of religious and national groups, and to
encourage persecution, torture, and public violence. He actively
campaigns against any notions of racial, religious, and sexual
equality. He threatens those who oppose him with the unchecked power of
the state.

.... grossest libels of
religious and national groups, and to encourage persecution,
torture, and public violence.?

Specifically?

There's no end to this sort of drivel from shell-shocked
leftists. Where are the examples? One real problem is that Epps, and
ilk, have "been teaching
... the U.S. Constitution for a quarter-century." And
leaving behind a trail of schooled, but poorly educated bots, in the
wake.

"He threatens
those who oppose him with the unchecked power of the state."
Where has this man been the last 8 years?

In
other words, the individuals behind this newly created group are
publicly branding journalists and news outlets as tools of Russian
propaganda — even calling on the FBI to investigate them for espionage
— while cowardly hiding their own identities.

THE WASHINGTON POST on Thursday night promoted the claims of a new,
shadowy organization that smears dozens of U.S. news
sites that are critical of U.S. foreign
policy as being “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda.” The article
by reporter Craig Timberg — headlined “Russian propaganda effort helped
spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say” — cites a report by an
anonymous website calling itself PropOrNot ((Is It Propaganda Or
not? Your Friendly Neighborhood Propaganda Identifiation Service Since
2016!), which claims
that millions
of Americans have been deceived this year in a massive Russian
“misinformation campaign.”

The group’s list of Russian disinformation outlets includes WikiLeaks
and the Drudge Report, as well as Clinton-critical left-wing websites
such as Truthout, Black Agenda Report, Truthdig, and Naked Capitalism,
as well as libertarian venues such as Antiwar.com and the Ron Paul
Institute.

The group promoted by the Post thus embodies the toxic essence of
Joseph McCarthy, but without the courage to attach individual names to
the blacklist. Echoing the Wisconsin senator, the group refers to its
lengthy collection of sites spouting Russian propaganda as “The List.”

[...] "The group promoted by the Post thus embodies the toxic essence of
Joseph McCarthy, but without the courage to attach individual
names to
the blacklist." (FULL)

Well
met; however the rather gratuitous slam "The
group promoted by the Post thus embodies the toxic essence of Joseph
McCarthy, but without the courage to attach individual names to the
blacklist" comment caused me to find out that, as expected,
author Glenn Edward Greenwald
was born in 1967, and thus the product of an education system that,
rather purposefully, pedals the "toxic
essence of Joseph McCarthy" crap.

As for the WaPost, it has under the Jeff Bezos
encroachment become left wing toxic.